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Human Rights Watch issued a report Saturday calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet in connection with US mistreatment and torture of...

US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...

An unnamed lieutenant in the US Navy special forces SEALs begins his court-martial Monday on charges of assault, dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer stemming from the treatment of Iraqi prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi [Wikipedia...

The latest US Defense Department documents obtained by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the US goverment indicate that the US held children under 12 at the prison as well as women, at...

The Pentagon wants to cut in half the number of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay by tranferring many prisoners out of the country to facilities in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to a report published in Friday's...

In an interview with three news agencies Monday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied renewed allegations that pursuant to an executive order issued after the September 11 attacks the CIA had flown as many as 150 terror suspects to...

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement Friday that an independent Commission of Experts would be appointed to access progress made in Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Indonesia in adjudicating human rights violations that occurred in 1999 when...

The Iraqi prisoner who died while in US custody at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and whose corpse was shown in photographs that emerged from the abuse scandal died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging"...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has upheld a contempt ruling against two reporters who refused to disclose their sources to investigators looking into the leak of an undercover CIA agent's name to the...

ACLU, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, February 2, 2005 [ruling that the CIA should comply with FOIA requests made by ACLU to...